P04954.002 Accession Number: P04954.002

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A simple wooden cross marks the graves of 2857 Private (Pte) Leslie Victor Brooks, 3rd Battalion AIF and 13892 Pte F C Davies, Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment) 10th Battalion, at Lijssenthoek Cemetery, Belgium. Pte Brooks, a clerk of Petersham, NSW, enlisted on 13 August 1915 and sailed with the 6th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Euripdes on 2 November 1915. He died of wounds on 21 September 1917, aged 23.

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Accession Number
P04954.002
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date Made
c 1917
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor J Pelosi
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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